Socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent health complaints: A multilevel latent class analysis in 45 countries.

Autor: Hammami N; Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University, 1130 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec H3A1A3 Canada.; Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan Canada., Gobina I; Faculty of Public Health and Social Welfare, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Riga Stradiņš University, Rīga, Latvia., Lukoševičiūtė J; Health Research Institute, Faculty of Public Health, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania., Kostičová M; Institute of Social Medicine and Medical Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia., Lyyra N; Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland., Gariepy G; Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada., Šmigelskas K; Department of Health Psychology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania., Baban A; Department of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania., Malinowska-Cieślik M; Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland., Elgar FJ; Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University, 1130 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec H3A1A3 Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) [Curr Psychol] 2022 Apr 01, pp. 1-12. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 01.
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-03038-6
Abstrakt: Our study evaluated the relationship between adolescent health complaints and socioeconomic position in 45 countries. Data are from the 2017/2018 international Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey which used proportionate sampling among adolescents aged 11 to 15 years old ( n =228,979). Multilevel, multinomial regression analysis assessed the association between the multilevel latent classes with socioeconomic status (SES; at the household and country level). Three distinct latent classes were identified: No Complaints, Psychological Complaints, and a Physical and Psychological Complaints class; where, low household SES was highest for the physical and psychological complaints class. The findings suggest that health promotion policies and interventions among adolescents should consider the specific needs of adolescents living with low household SES as they report more subjective health complaints.
Competing Interests: Conflicts of interestOn behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there are no conflicts of interest.
(© The Author(s) 2022.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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